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In this contribution we describe some interesting interplay between quantum theory, general relativity and thermodynamics. In order to highlight the connection between these theories, we describe two approaches that allow to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-28 Giovanni Acquaviva

In the paper, the temperature associated with a dynamical spherically symmetric black hole or with a cosmological horizon is investigated from the point of view of a point-like detector. First, we briefly review the Hamilton-Jacobi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

I consider the problem of reconciling "tunneling" approaches to black-hole radiation with the treatment by quantum field theory in curved space-time. It is not possible to do this completely, but using what appears to be the most direct and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Adam D. Helfer

In the present paper, Unruh--DeWitt detectors are used in order to investigate the issue of temperature associated with a spherically symmetric dynamical space-times. Firstly, we review the semi-classical tunneling method, then we introduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , M. Tolotti , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

We give a brief description of some compelling connections between general relativity and thermodynamics through i) the semi-classical tunnelling method(s) and ii) the field-theoretical modelling of Unruh-DeWitt detectors. In both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-16 Giovanni Acquaviva

By globally embedding curved spaces into higher dimensional flat ones, we show that Hawking thermal properties map into their Unruh equivalents: The relevant curved space detectors become Rindler ones, whose temperature and entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , Orit Levin

In this paper we compute the temperature registered by an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a Hadamard renormalizable quantum field in an arbitrary state, moving along an accelerated trajectory in a curved spacetime. For a massless and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-01 Morgan H. Lynch , Niayesh Afshordi

We study Unruh phenomena for a qudit detector coupled to a quantized scalar field, comparing its response to that of a standard qubit-based Unruh-DeWitt detector. We show that there are limitations to the utility of the detailed balance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Caroline Lima , Everett Patterson , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

We develop an adiabatic formalism to study the Hawking phenomenon from the perspective of Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving along non-stationary, non-asymptotic trajectories. When applied to geodesic trajectories, this formalism yields the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-27 Matteo Smerlak , Suprit Singh

We study the measurements of a freely falling Unruh-DeWitt particle detector near the horizon of a semiclassical Schwarzschild black hole. Our results show that the detector's response increases smoothly as it approaches and crosses the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Christopher J. Shallue , Sean M. Carroll

The goal of quantum metrology is the exploitation of quantum resources, like entanglement or quantum coherence, in the fundamental task of parameter estimation. Here we consider the question of the estimation of the Unruh temperature in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Danilo Borim , Lucas C. Céleri , Vasileios I. Kiosses

Unruh radiation is the thermal flux seen by an accelerated observer moving through Minkowski spacetime. In this article we study Unruh radiation as tunneling through a barrier. We use a WKB-like method to obtain the tunneling rate and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrea de Gill , Douglas Singleton , Valeria Akhmedova , Terry Pilling

We substantiate the Hawking radiation as quantum tunneling of fields or particles crossing the horizon by using the Rindler coordinate. The thermal spectrum detected by an accelerated particle is interpreted as quantum tunneling in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-10 Sang Pyo Kim

We consider coordinate systems adapted to accelerated observers, construct a generalised Rindler metric and then adopt a specific form of it to compute the semiclassical Unruh temperature, using a WKB approximation within a Hamilton Jacobi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-06 Rabin Banerjee , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Debraj Roy

The thermal spectrum seen by accelerated observers in Minkowski space - known as the Unruh effect - is derived within the tunneling mechanism. This is a new result in this mechanism and it completes the treatment of Unruh effect via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Debraj Roy

Using tunnelling approach, Hawking radiation is derived for a general class of non-static spherically symmetric space time. The standard tunnelling rate formula is obtained using the unified first law of thermodynamics on the trapping…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Subenoy Chakraborty , Nairwita Mazumder , Ritabrata Biswas

We study the temperatures for the circular and drifted Rindler motions by employing the Unruh-DeWitt detector method. In the circular motion, the temperature is increasing along the radius of the circular motion until it reaches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Yongwan Gim , Hwajin Um , Wontae Kim

Particle detector models such as the Unruh-deWitt detector are widely used in relativistic quantum information and field theory to probe the global features of spacetime and quantum fields. These detectors are typically modelled as coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Joshua Foo , Sho Onoe , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

The Unruh effect refers to the thermal fluctuations a detector experiences while undergoing linear motion with uniform acceleration in a Minkowski vacuum. This thermality can be demonstrated by tracing the vacuum state of the field over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Jason Doukas , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu , Robert B. Mann

We examine an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a scalar field in three-dimensional curved spacetime, within first-order perturbation theory. We first obtain a causal and manifestly regular expression for the instantaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko
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